Cabinet - Sources

Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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The early modern siege
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Надгробие Шаршемби уулу Абдыкадыра (Кыргызстан)
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The Slave Trade
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Letter
‘Bosnian Belle’
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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